Quotes About Truth

But facts are chiels that winna ding, and downa be disputed.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

We can say nothing but what hath been said.

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

The rumors, not the truth, were enough to destroy a girl's reputation.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Science is a subordinate category. When science offers itself as the final stage or form of knowing, it is guilty of a false quantity, in that it puts the accent, which belongs elsewhere, upon the penultimate.

The maxim, "An unexamined life is not worth living," is the priceless legacy of Socrates to the generations of men who have followed him upon this earth. The beings who have stood on humanity's summit are those, and only those, who have heard the voice of Socrates across the centuries. The others are a superior kind of cattle.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don't have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.

Foul Superstition! howsoe'er disguised, Idol, saint, virgin, prophet, crescent, cross, For whatsoever symbol thou art prized, Thou sacerdotal gain, but general loss! Who from true worship's gold can separate thy dross?

The truth is in the pudding.

Language has shaped our expectations so extensively that real reality has become the most detached and incomprehensible one of all.

cayó en la trampa de la intuición que vuela a oscuras y da en el blanco antes de que el entendimiento pueda empezar a hacer lo suyo...

Ahí estaba nuestra diferencia clave, el abismo que nos separaba. Yo tenía una vida real totalmente separa de las creencias, de la realidad general conformada por las creencias compartidas...

Sólo un loco podía renunciar a un status quo imaginario. Sólo un loco podía adoptar lo real de la realidad.

La mentira y la verdad eran relativas, ya que los hechos que eran los referentes del discurso estaban cambiando siempre.

Liars lie. That's what they do. Lying, and in so doing trying to make me lie to myself. Trying to make me not trust my family. Liars lie by cutting you loose from what you thought was so and persuading you this other thing they are waving in front of you is the new truth. ... Liars want you off balance and alone, so you can drown in self-doubt.

The revolutionary generation believed, to a man, that freedom and reason are the necessary preconditions of truth.